Brendan Gallagher, on a first-period power play, and Thomas Vanek got the Canadiens' goals.

Columbus outshot the home side 40-27.

One mistake

Jarred Tinordi bobbled the puck in the vicinity of Ryan Johansen.

Not a good idea.

Johansen, who had played a spectacular game, beat Carey Price for the winner.

Full value for their lead

Columbus is winning all the little battles and got the only goal of the second period, from Brandon Dubinsky.

Visitors outshot the Canadiens 13-7, 29-19 over 40 minutes.

The Canadiens' PK killed a two-man disadvantage.

Terrific 20 minutes

The game got off to a roaring start when Carey Price stopped Cam Atkinson on a breakawy eight seconds in.

That was the first of 16 shots the visitors directed at Price. The Canadiens had a dozen on Sergei Bobrovsky.

Brendan Gallagher got the Canadiens on the board with his 18th, a power-play goal from close in.

Derek MacKenzie tied it off a set play: After the Canadiens iced the puck on a power play, Mark Letestu won a faceoff and got off a shot that Price bobbled. MacKenzie crashed the net and batted it home.

Max Paciorett and Ruyan Johansen had a spirited fight that ended with the Blue Jacket on the deck.

Hello, Columbus

The Canadiens have won both previous meetings with the Blue Jackets: 5-3 at the Bell Centre on Oct. 17 and 3-2 at Columbus on Nov. 15.

David Desharnais's Shootout goal in the second game is credited with kick-starting his season.

Well, that and being dissed by Montreal mayor Denis Coderre.

Columbus is desperately fighting for a playoff spot, and the Blue Jackets have garnered 13 points in their last 18 games.

The Canadiens are riding a three-game winning streak and sit seven points north of the cutoff for postseason berths.

This looks like the same as previous years where teams are gooning our players, and we have no answer.

We see Price getting run a lot recently, the Bruins attacked Emelin, tonight Pacioretty. Who is our muscle, Ryan White? I guess we learned nothing from watching Eller getting put in the hospital last year.

Good period just a little surprised that boys didn’t see that one coming with the face off in their zone on the PP. That’s the oldest trick in the book to slap the puck towards the net and it was a good shot as well. Don’t recall who took the face off but whoever that was lost that cleanly and a little to cleanly for my liking.

I agree Johnny. Short handed goals are killers. I don’t have the stat in front of me, but it seems that more short handed goals have been scored this season, league wide, than seasons past. Maybe perception vs reality?

Good on the Habs, Columbus trying to intimidate the Habs and it’s not working. They get a fluky goal. Habs didn’t have a good first period. I am sure the Habs will make adjustments to start the second.